Centre for Children's Rights
Director
Prof Laura Lundy
Professor of Education Law and Children's Rights
LL.B, LL.M, PhD,
Barrister at Law
l.lundy@qub.ac.uk
Deputy Director
Other Members:
Prof David Archard
Dr Bronagh Byrne
Prof Paul Connolly
Prof Jannette Elwood
Dr Karen Kerr
Dr Sylvie Langlaude
Prof Ruth Leitch
Dr Katrina Lloyd
Dr Sarah Miller
Dr Ulrike Niens
Dr Karen Orr
Dr Dirk Schubotz
Dr Elizabeth Welty
Dr Karen Winter
Research Students:
Jen Banks
Rhiann Barrance
Helen Brown
Josephine Bweyale
Suzanne Coneeley
Michelle Drain
Helen Hanna
Lucy Royal-Dawson
Harry Shier
Jamie Yohanis
News from the Centre for Children's Rights
Centre commissioned to write guide to children’s right to participate for EuroChild conference
Professor Laura Lundy and Dr Helen Stalford from the European Children’s Rights Centre at the University of Liverpool have been commissioned by EuroChild to write a guide to...
UNICEF research presented at SLS Edinburgh
Laura Lundy was an invited speaker at the Family Law Section of the Society of Legal Scholars annual conference in Edinburgh on September. She presented the findings recent research on the...
Doctoral research student wins prize for best paper at international conference
Ms. Jen Banks, a doctoral research student in the Centre for Children’s Rights, School of Education, has been awarded ‘Best Paper’ prize for her...
Presentation at University College London: 'Would the UNCR be different if children had been involved in drafting it?'
Prof Laura Lundy and Dr Elizabeth Welty presented an invited paper with the title, ‘Would the UNCRC be different if children had been involved in drafting it?' on the 1st of July at...
Research Grant Awarded By the Department of Justice
The Centre for Children’s Rights has been awarded a research grant by the Department of Justice to explore the legal needs of children and young people in Northern Ireland. The project team...
Publications
Lundy, L. & Emerson, L. (2012) Children’s Rights and Research Processes: assisting children to (in)formed views. Childhood. 19(1), p. 116-129.
Lundy, L. (2013 in press) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Child Well-being. Chapter in Ben-Arieh, A., Casas, F., Frones, I., Korbin, J. (Eds) International Handbook on Child Well-Being, Springer.